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The Greater Sum Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$59k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$117kEducation$90kHuman Services$65kYouth Development$50kEnvironment$50kCivil Rights$42kInternational$31kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$250
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOBIKO$12,644
COMMUNITY NEWS LAB$12,520
LOBIKO$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,025
LABRENEW$5,617
COMMUNITY NEWS LAB$3,000
CODE X$2,697
HENDRICKS FOUNDATION INC$1,000
HENDRICKS FOUNDATION INC$875
FOR THE LOVE OF PRIMATES$250
LEGAL ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT$250
WIKITONGUES$250
HANDS FOR LIFE$250
STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTIC$250
Individual grant recipient$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Lori's Hands: $15k → 10%STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $8k → 16%STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTIC: $250 → 16%FreeFrom: $20k → 14%Union Capital Boston: $20k → 16%Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
WV
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$203k · 12 repeat orgs$457k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
38

Total granted

$203k
$402k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+75%

Still filing today

58%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • RC
    Respond Crisis Translation
    2× · 2022–2023 · $42k · revenue +111%
  • BE
    BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $38k · revenue +1% · 42% of their budget
  • SL
    START LIGHTHOUSE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $9k · revenue +217%

Funded once

  • WV
    West Virginia University Land Use & Sustainable Development Law Clinic
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • AS
    ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +13%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Conversationalist
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2
Localization Lab Inc

We connect communities, partner organizations and developers to create conversations around the importance of cultural and linguistic context in technology.

Civil Rights
3
Immerse Nonprofit

To train, support, and mentor tutors and students around the globe.

Arts & Culture
4
4C for All

4C For All mission is to empower and uplift individuals in low-income, underserved global communities by providing free access to mental health education, emotional resilience tools, and support.

Health
5
Global Education Project Inc

By bringing together a team of passionate and dedicated individuals, Global Education Project Inc. strives to reduce the growing gap of education around the world, specifically focusing on promoting STEM education amongst children. GEP…

Education
6
Immigration Project Inc

We exist to provide accurate and precise legal information to immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers via mobile phone technology.

Crime & Legal
7
Conversations Unbound

We empower forcibly displaced people as paid online conversation partners for students around the world. We provide a robust educational experience for students to improve their foreign language skills, engage in rich cross-cultural…

Education
8
Ghana Girls Connect

Ghana Girls Connect, Inc. exists to empower young women of the diaspora to pursue their creative passions and turn them into sustainable professional careers. Through cultural immersion, professional development, and women empowerment…

Public Benefit
9
Teapoc Inc

Education of emerging technology for the poor

Education
10
Herhealtheq Corp

Delivering devices and equipment to mid-to-low income countries, to target the prevention and detection of non-communicable diseases. This is specifically focused on impacting the lives of women.

International
11
Inreach

InReach fka AsylumConnect is a trans-led tech nonprofit dedicated to building the world's first open source verified LGBTQ+ resource platform. InReach's free platform connects LGBTQ+ people facing persecution or discrimination with a range…

Education
12
Sahar Education

Sahar Education Sahar partners with Afghan based organizations to build schools and create educational opportunities for girls in Afghanistan empowering and inspiring children and their families to build peaceful and thriving communities.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Karat School Project; the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Unity Hall Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
17/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

West Virginia University Land Use & Sustainable Development Law Clinic: $25,000 · OtherWest Virginia University Land Use & Sustainable Development Law ClinicIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIssue Voter: $23,655 · OtherIssue VoterLOBIKO: $22,644 · OtherLOBIKOWORTHY MENTORING: $21,302 · OtherGRASSROOTS GROCERY: $20,530 · OtherVisioneers World Access for the Blind: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherTrans Student Educational Resources: $20,000 · OtherWesley House: $18,455 · OtherCOMMUNITY NEWS LAB: $15,520 · OtherTHE NEW 3RS: $14,897 · OtherChild Life Disaster Relief Inc: $20,000 · OtherFOR THE LOVE OF PRIMATES: $16,264 · OtherGIRLS LEADING GIRLS: $14,230 · Other+28 more: $98,558 · Other+28 moreASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesASYLUM SEEKER A…UNION CAPITAL INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesUNION CAPITAL I…Freefrom: $20,000 · Human ServicesFreefromLORI'S HANDS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesLORI'S HANDS IN…STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $7,931 · Human ServicesSTUDENT CLINIC …Respond Crisis Translation: $41,510 · Civil RightsBRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY: $37,792 · Health+1 more: $1,250 · HealthWIKITONGUES INC: $10,262 · EducationEMPOWR CO: $10,250 · EducationSTART LIGHTHOUSE: $8,866 · EducationCodeX Inc: $2,947 · EducationHendricks Foundation Inc: $1,875 · EducationBARAKAT BUNDLE INC: $20,533 · International+1 more: $250 · InternationalCONNECTING CHAMPIONS: $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$416,055Human Services$87,931Civil Rights$41,510Health$39,042Education$34,200International$20,783Youth Development$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRespond Crisis Translation: $41,510 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY: $37,792 over 2y, 42% of budgetBARAKAT BUNDLE INC: $20,533 over 1y, 27% of budgetChild Life Disaster Relief Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetFreefrom: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOR THE LOVE OF PRIMATES: $16,264 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetLORI'S HANDS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetGIRLS LEADING GIRLS: $14,230 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWIKITONGUES INC: $10,262 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetEMPOWR CO: $10,250 over 1y, 2.8% of budget7000 LANGUAGES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSTART LIGHTHOUSE: $8,866 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSTUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $7,931 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetART PREVAILS PROJECT INC: $3,090 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCodeX Inc: $2,947 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTEETOTAL INITIATIVE: $1,250 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetKARAT SCHOOL PROJECT: $505 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE UNITY HALL INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS 4LIFE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINFORM YOUR COMMUNITY: $250 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAFGHAN FEMALE STUDENT OUTREACH: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH HIRES VETERANS: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Accountability Project: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECOLOGISTICS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Respond Crisis Translation ↗
  • Who funds BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BARAKAT BUNDLE INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTING CHAMPIONS ↗
  • Who funds UNION CAPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Child Life Disaster Relief Inc ↗
  • Who funds Freefrom ↗
  • Who funds FOR THE LOVE OF PRIMATES ↗
  • Who funds LORI'S HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS LEADING GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds WIKITONGUES INC ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWR CO ↗
  • Who funds 7000 LANGUAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds START LIGHTHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds LABRENEW ↗
  • Who funds Heroic Gardens ↗
  • Who funds ART PREVAILS PROJECT INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincPaypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile FoundationDonor Advised Charita…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Greater Sum Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Greater Sum Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Lori's Hands Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Greater Sum Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Greater Sum Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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